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by e_y_ 2y ago
But also that willingness to face the risks goes with the expectation that the people on the ground did everything they could to minimize the risks. If that trust is broken, because someone cut corners to save on costs and schedule, it&#x27
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Third-party libraries? TLS has definitely had its fair share of implementation and protocol vulnerabilities. Although in mailhog's case it looks like STARTTLS was never implemented. Hence the forks.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
The classic Escape Velocity Nova used ResEdit as it's official modding support https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10504182
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by e_y_ 2y ago
This has nothing to do with the App Store. The API access is being gated by the user granting permission, rather than some reviewer looking at the app and deciding it violates a policy. Letting users lock and unlock doors is completely diff
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Social media was already becoming soulless even before AI generated content. Most common: reposting other people's content. Sometimes with attribution, sometimes without, either way the original creator doesn't get any of the like
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Cell phone carriers can set up their own RCS servers. All the major US carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US) outsourced their RCS to Google's Jibe platform, though. Messaging apps haven't been pure SMS for a long time. If you&
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Wouldn't you rather not lose $1+ million? It costs something like $400/year per $1M coverage which is hardly breaking the bank.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
SLS is the rocket. Artemis is the project that uses SLS, Orion, and Starship to land humans on the moon. There's also the dubious Lunar Gateway concept although that will likely get dropped as reality sets in. Maybe the same will happe
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Racism probably played a part in that, considering that many Roman slaves were Greek or Italian, while Southern slaves were black and blacks continue to face discrimination a century and a half after the end of slavery.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
It's a reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian ("What have the Romans ever done for us?" asks one character)
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by e_y_ 2y ago
I would say that it makes the interview process more consistent and documented, and less subject to individual bias. However there's definitely going to be some bias at the institutional level considering that some people are just not
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by e_y_ 2y ago
If engineers are doing fake work, it's because managers are doing fake managing. Engineers generally like to work on meaningful projects. Sometimes we do get sidetracked on pet projects like building a better database design or whatnot
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Qualified dividends are taxed at the same rate as long term capital gains, although the rules for what qualifies can be tricky (special one-time dividends in particular).
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Just give me radiant floor heating
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Security through obscurity is only a problem if obscurity is the main defense mechanism. It's perfectly fine as a defense-in-depth. This would only be an issue if someone did something stupid like set up a passwordless rlogin or data
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I haven't been able to find a detailed explanation of how it works. Somehow it emits a magnetic pulse that simulates the card being swiped, without having to physically swipe the card. Best guess is that it uses some kind of magnetic i
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by e_y_ 3y ago
It was standards based, but the way Apple ran the launch and marketing (kind of genius, actually), they gave the impression that Apple Pay was the only phone-based tap-to-pay around. Merchants would have signs saying "Apple Pay accepte
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by e_y_ 3y ago
It survived for quite a few centuries so maybe that says something about projects that live on despite severe flaws. San Francisco has its own leaning tower that's costing hundreds of millions in repairs and continues to discover new p
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Back in the C days, it was common to not use generic data structures like lists; instead you'd have a next_item pointer as a field in the struct. For linked lists, this would save you from needing another memory allocation or wrapper s
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Time-of-day pricing is a bit different from unpredictable dynamic pricing. If the customer can reasonably anticipate the expected pricing, that's different from being suddenly surprised at a price hike -- like with Uber-style surge pri
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by e_y_ 3y ago
With a 7 day expiration, max of 3 apps. It's more of a "developer account lite" testing tool than a bona fide sideloading mechanism.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
My understanding is that Google does not sell user data to 3rd parties. It's much more profitable for Google to sell targeted ads that indirectly use that data (without giving the data away), and also avoids the potential legal and PR
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I think YouTube is an example of where Google would rather sell you a service (YouTube Premium) than an ever-increasing number of ads (including ads for YouTube Premium). Google makes more money from Premium users. Creators get paid more fo
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Even today, there's good and bad uses of CG, usually coming down to schedule and creative direction. The average quality has gone up substantially, though. As you pointed out, there's all kinds of ways to use CGI and VFX more subt
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I think the distribution requirement is specifically for private foundations, not public charities.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
That's exactly what I predicted for NFC when Apple announced Apple Pay. Apple kept developers from using any of the NFC APIs until they were ready to roll out Apple Pay, and then only allowed non-payment NFC after that. It gave them 10
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by e_y_ 3y ago
I'm on board with paying taxes in an abstract conceptual sense. It's generally how it's spent and how it's collected (who pays how much) that are problematic. Also worth noting that Google originally aimed to create less
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by e_y_ 3y ago
In general, using semantic tags like <meter> and <progress> instead of a div has to be done carefully because browsers and screen readers often have bugs and inconsistencies especially for less commonly used tags (and even for w
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by e_y_ 3y ago
It's definitely the phrasing.
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by e_y_ 3y ago
Apple charges a premium on its hardware. Firefox is free and Mozilla makes most of its money from the default browser agreement, which is potentially now in jeopardy.

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